Would have liked more on
Diverse (culturally) and distributed teams.
Project tracking techniques, KPIs
Keeping teams engaged [after they’ve been through a number of Sprints]
How to coach Product Owners
Shouldn’t there be a Scrum “team” certification [everyone who wants any sort of Scrum training just has SM, PO, and a 5-day developer course to hope covers the topic]
What’s the Scrum master sphere of influence, how to get teams to grow
Managing one’s own personal change (and help others do the same)
[What to do about teams feeling that there are] Too many meetings
Maintaining morale [team]
Coaching team members
Training seems to teach the “target state,” but not how to get there
What could be “compromised” to get things started
What not to do [i.e., dysfunctions to avoid]
And toward the end of the session, Peter Stevens asked the group “What is causing you pain?” to which he got the following comments:
*Servant* not needed [i.e., teams feeling that, after a while, they “know” Scrum and don’t need the Scrum Master perhaps because] the “Pressure is off when they got the basics right”.
Lack of cohesion between silos (most of the work is between the silos)
What's the next step? No career path [and this seemed to be to be suggested by many of the prior comments above]
Lot of change in management [i.e., having to “(re)educate” a new set of management]
My SM has no SM training [right, management picked a Scrum Master who had never had any formal training and did not indicate they would need it]
Spillover [the prior session to this discussed the problems of teams not finishing work and having it spill over into the next Sprint]
[Management or POs feeling teams should] Do defects in your over[/own] time, misconceptions about story points [, saying defects should be worth ‘0’ points, viewing points something like a scoring system you “get credit” for, hence no credit for defects]
Useful tools? {and someone suggested the] Spotify health check
How do you validate that what you did yesterday really works? [Something I have taught in my class as a daily, individual “retrospective” on one’s own accomplishments for the day.]